Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
That makes sense. I brought up you living in the middle of nowhere because people who live in the middle of nowhere and then move on to colleges where they become infatuated with liberal issues tend to lack unbiased perspective.
I've been "infatuated with liberal issues" for years. I was ranting about human rights abuses as a 14 year old.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
I feel like this discussion is going in a direction that's a lot less productive. So, please allow me to reel this back in a bit. What, exactly, did you take issue with in this statement:I agree, forcing people to do this or that is wrong, sure.I think that street goes both ways though, is all I'm saying.
here?
I think the problem is that we have different ideas about where the line should be drawn. As someone who has not been oppreshed or discriminated against, this very well might be an area where you have more experience, so I should have backed off and asked you to elaborate. Basically, the origin of my reaction is that I have very little patience for the idea that fighting bigotry (or oppreshion or hatred) is itself hatred. The charges of reverse-discrimination RE: Affirmative Action have always seemed silly, for example. And when my professor complained that using "she" exclusively in textbook examples (as a PC precaution) was actually "swinging sexism the other direction" I just shook my head.
That is how I interpreted your post. I thought that you were saying that the push to make any negative comment against gays unacceptable was itself a social ill. (And while I understand how that strategy can be off-putting, I do believe it is an important component of the movement.)